Abstract:
This study was conducted for a two-fold purpose: to determine adolescents' views
on premarital sex and to discover whether perceived school views, perceived peers'
view, school influence, peer influence, media influence and/or other people's influence
contribute to their personal views about premarital sexual behaviour. To accomplish the
previous, adolescents filled survey questionnaires and a representative number of
respondents participated in focus group discussions. For the latter, a regression analysis
was conducted. Only perceive peers, attitudes on premarital sexual behaviour was found
to be a moderate predictor suggesting that premarital sexual attitudes of adolescents are
mostly influenced by what their friends think about premarital sexual behaviours. Their
relationship is positive, hence this stipulates that if adolescents think their friends'
perceptions on premarital sex is conservative, disallowing, and non-condoning, then they
are most likely to internalize and hold those beliefs. School views and influence in this
case is superseded by peer's views.
